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A review by quillandkindle
The Stonecutter by Camilla Läckberg
1.0
The Stonecutter turned out to be such a tiresome read for me. It feels like the author tried to cover so many grounds in her book till she losed focus and failed to emphasis more on the thing that suppose to matter most: the mystery and the routes to solve it.
The main thing that can be found in The Stonecutter is the neverending emotional outburst mostly from the female characters. To read about their endless self-pity where they blame others for difficulties that they have to face is utterly exhausting. And to have this train of thoughts repeated number of times in the book is simply too much for me.
But what pained me most is the way Läckberg consistently created characters that have a brain the size of a pea and then built some absurd subplots involving them that don't seem to add anything to the story. It irks me that she put this seemingly ridiculous storyline upfront while neglecting to be precise and in detail about the proper investigation procedures that involved in solving the crime. How this book could be mentioned as at par with the other Scandinavian mysteries is really beyond me.
In the nutshell, I found The Stonecutter to be excruciatingly dull, slow and exhausting read. It is an ordinary whodunit book that have zero suspenseful chapters and by the end, I don't think I really care who actually the perp is anymore. This is definitely one of the worst books that I've ever read, enough said.
The main thing that can be found in The Stonecutter is the neverending emotional outburst mostly from the female characters. To read about their endless self-pity where they blame others for difficulties that they have to face is utterly exhausting. And to have this train of thoughts repeated number of times in the book is simply too much for me.
But what pained me most is the way Läckberg consistently created characters that have a brain the size of a pea and then built some absurd subplots involving them that don't seem to add anything to the story. It irks me that she put this seemingly ridiculous storyline upfront while neglecting to be precise and in detail about the proper investigation procedures that involved in solving the crime. How this book could be mentioned as at par with the other Scandinavian mysteries is really beyond me.
In the nutshell, I found The Stonecutter to be excruciatingly dull, slow and exhausting read. It is an ordinary whodunit book that have zero suspenseful chapters and by the end, I don't think I really care who actually the perp is anymore. This is definitely one of the worst books that I've ever read, enough said.